Guadeloupe and Martinique: “the basic issue is colonial contempt”
If mandatory vaccination was the spark that ignited the fire, the fuse was already well in place.
If mandatory vaccination was the spark that ignited the fire, the fuse was already well in place.
This speech was delivered at an anti-racist event hosted by the Fraser Valley Peace Council in July 2021.
These articles, detailing the inhuman maltreatment and violence perpetrated against Indigenous people in the colonial residential school system, date back to 87 years ago — but they prove that this recent discovery was not an isolated incident, nor was it simply evidence of a so-called “dark chapter in Canadian history”.
By Tyson Riel Strandlund